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	Encyclopedia: Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Truth is a property, just as red is a property predicated of a barn in the sentence in "The barn is red." The task for such theories is to explain the nature of this property.
		The correspondence theory of truth is the theory that something is rendered true by the existence of a fact with corresponding elements and a similar structure.
		The semantic theory of truth has as its general case for a given language: The semantic theory of truth holds that any assertion that a proposition is true can be made only as a formal requirement regarding the language in which the proposition itself is expressed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Truth (5118 words)

	Truth [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The competing theories are [iv] the Coherence Theory, and [v] the Pragmatic Theory.
		a theory of linguistic truth (for noncontingent propositions)?
		The principal deflationary theory is the Redundancy Theory advocated by Frege, Ramsey, and Horwich.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/truth.htm (9250 words)

	Pragmatic theory of truth -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The (additional info and facts about pragmatic theory of truth) pragmatic theory of truth is a philosophical theory of (A true statement) truth.
		James's version of ((philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value) pragmatism was been taken up by later philosophers such as (United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)) John Dewey and, most controversially, (additional info and facts about Richard Rorty) Richard Rorty.
		Other objections to pragmatism include how we define what it means to say a (Any cognitive content held as true) belief "works", or that it is "useful to believe".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/pragmatic_theory_of_truth.htm (444 words)

	The Deflationary Theory of Truth
		Truth and falsity are ascribed primarily to propositions.
		It is often said that what is most obvious about truth is that truth consists in correspondence to the facts- for example, that the truth of the proposition that the earth revolves around the sun consists in its correspondence to the fact that the earth revolves around the sun.
		The deflationary theory of truth is inconsistent with there being a gap in the class of propositions, and this has been thought by many to be an objection to the theory.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/truth-deflationary (7543 words)

	20th WCP: Truth and Religion Reconsidered: An Analytical Approach
		The intra-religious truth concerns the supernatural content of religious beliefs and its truth can be determined only from inside of a given religion by a believer through one's own revelation of God or through appeal to the authority of the divine founder of that religion.
		Truth of religion is here identified with religious truth understood as knowledge orientated towards the ultimate deepest reality called by various names: God, Dharma, Tao, the Sacred, etc. A religion is true in the sense that it states that the transcendent, supernatural, sacred reality exists.
		Truth of religion is seen in the intimate personal confrontation with the sacred and in all-embracing commitment of the person to the sphere of the sacrum.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Reli/ReliBron.htm (5816 words)

	Clinton Collins / TRUTH AS A COMMUNICATIVE VIRTUE IN A POSTMODERN AGE: FROM DEWEY TO RORTY
		When a representational theory of knowledge is abandoned, the “truth” of texts becomes no more significant as a criterion of their adequacy than such contextual variables as their appropriateness to the social and historical contexts in which they occur, or their role in the psychology of the person creating the text.
		For example, a scientific theory’s adequacy depends as much on political variables among the appropriate scientific community as it does on its alleged correspondence to an external reality or its coherence with widely held beliefs, which are the two widely acknowledged criteria for truth, both classically and within the modern age.
		The pragmatic theory that truth is what works to solve the problem at hand does not seem to get at the ways in which postmodernity alters the basis of human communications.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/COLLINS.HTM (3208 words)

	What is truth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Despite the robust Austinian view that the correspondence theory of truth is really no more than an expression of how the word "truth" is defined in English, some people deny the validity of this theory.
		The pragmatic theory of truth was first enunciated by C.S. Peirce, and most famously advocated by William James.
		Tarski formulated a theory of the truth of formal languages.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~ursa/philos/cert04.htm (2091 words)

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		Pragmatism rejects metaphysical realism because it classifies as useless and empty the claim that there is a reality transcendent of all possible human experience and knowledge.
		Pragmatism is committed to the notion of human progress, both scientific and moral.
		The misuse of the notion of "truth" by rationalists is a primary example of an immense obstacle to human progress.
	www.msu.edu /~ostromc/Lec28_01.doc (846 words)

	Summary of Theories of Truth
		The correspondence theory is the "default" theory of truth.
		The pragmatic theory of truth might invite relativism in the case of beliefs that are compatible with all states of affairs, e.g., religious beliefs.
		The pragmatic theory of truth invites the notion that there are degrees of truth (some beliefs might be more effective than others), and thus invites us to reject the law of non-contradiction ("a claim is either true or false").
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/Truth_theories.html (622 words)

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		(a) from a coherence theory of truth to a correspondence theory of truth.
		(b) from a correspondence theory of truth to a pragmatic theory of truth.
		(c) from a pragmatic theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth.
	www-phil.tamu.edu /~sdaniel/quests6.htm (2621 words)

	Библиотека RIN.ru - Измайлова А. - The Theory of Truth in the Writings of William James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Pragmatic theory, one of main representatives of which are James, Peirce, Dewey, Misak, holds that the truth of a belief is a matter of whether it "works", that is, whether acting upon it pays off (just in case the experiences we have are matter of coherence with future experiences).
		Peirce saw his pragmatism as part of a philosophical system, which was realist in its orientation and grounded philosophy in a system of categories, but James, on the other hand, embraced his pragmatism as a means of overcoming this conception of philosophy.
		Peirce described pragmatism as a "logical doctrine" and a "theory of logical analysis", his pragmatism was presented as a methodological rule, considering it a part of logic.
	lib.rin.ru /doc/i/198465p.html (1072 words)

	Juvenal Reis: Truth and Painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The pragmatic theory of truth regards a proposition as true if its satisfactory working has been verified by such conditions as may be stipulated.
		One might apply the correspondence theory of truth to painting by positing the relationship between a painting qua representation and what it represents as being true if the painting is adequate, thus alluding to the classical formulation of the correspondence theory as adequatio rei et intellectus.
		One might apply the coherence theory of truth to painting as analogous to the notion of unity, or wholeness of the work, a component condition of beauty at least since the Greek notion of symmetria and the medieval notion of unitas.
	home.earthlink.net /~davidrnewman/reis.htm (2252 words)

	Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Correspondence theory: An idea or statement is true because there is something in the world that corresponds to it.
		To be a relativist would be to deny the past’s value, that is, the past markers of truth and success in science.
		Truth is based upon that part of experience which takes the results or products as important.
	home.comcast.net /~philosophygadfly/16_Can_Sci_Give_Truth.htm (1652 words)

	Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, Chapter 2, Truth and Acceptance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The minimal theories of truth just mentioned have in common that they require a "match" or "correspondence" between what is said and reality.
		If we want a theory of truth to be of any real value, on this view, we should look not to an invisible "structure of reality" but to the conditions under which we accept sentences as being true.
		A leading type of pragmatic theory is one which ties truth to the practices of some kind of authoritative individuals or groups, e.g.
	hume.ucdavis.edu /phi102/tkch2.htm (5790 words)

	AcademicDB - The pragmatic theory of truth.
		Along with the definitions of these different theories of truths, come arguments against them.
		Each theory has its own objections to why that particular theory does not work and should therefore be rejected.
		The pragmatic theory of truth states that a belief or idea is true solely based on whether it works.
	www.academicdb.com /pragmatic_theory_truth_10422 (292 words)

	Friday, 7/23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		What theory of truth one adheres to has a huge impact on a wide range of related beliefs about the nature of science and scientific theories.
		Hempel’s theory of explanation - an explanation is an argument in which initial conditions and law like generalizations lead to the thing to be explained as the conclusion.
		Ordinary language theory of explanation - to explain is to attempt to produce understanding in another person by answering a certain sort of question with the intention of giving the recipient of the answer knowledge that the answer is true.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~jenkinsm/072304.html (1023 words)

	Language, philosophy of : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Pragmatics, at least as much as semantics, has benefited from the contributions of philosophers.
		Philosophical interest in pragmatics typically has had its source in a prior interest in semantics – in a desire to understand how meaning and truth are situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication.
		The later Wittgenstein, for instance, reminds us of the vast variety of uses in which linguistic expressions participate, and warns of the danger of assuming that there is something aptly called their meanings which we might uncover through philosophy.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/U017 (1907 words)

	PHIL101(5)/Exam3/ModelAnswers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Coherence Theory of Truth: Something is true when it coehres with your set of beliefs and your beliefs fit together and cohere with one another.
		The Pragmatic Theory of Truth: Something is true when it fits with and reprsents a practical use in your life.
		The concern is that [according to Correspondence Theory] to know whether our beliefs are true we have to answer the question "does it correspond to the facts" and to know that we have to compare our beliefs with the facts.
	libarts.wsu.edu /philo/faculty-staff/shier/101.t3.answ.html (556 words)

	Knowledge, Truth, and Meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Pragmatic Theory of Truth is that true propositions are those that are most useful to believe and that are thus "fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate".
		The Pragmatic Theory either underdetermines the truth of certain propositions, or it reduces to a variant of the social version of the Coherence Theory.
		The Behavioral Theory of Meaning is that the meaning of a term consists of the behaviors and dispositions associated with it.
	humanknowledge.net /Philosophy/Epistemology.html (633 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Polish notation-Presupposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As formulated by William James, the pragmatic theory promises (in the long term) a convergence of human opinions upon a stable body of scientific propostions that have been shown in experience to be successful principles for human action.
		An indigenous American philosophical theory that explains both meaning and truth in terms of the application of ideas or beliefs to the performance of actions that have observable practical outcomes.
		Hence, according to P.F. Strawson, a presupposition is a necessary condition for either the truth or the falsity of the statement that presupposes it.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/p7.htm (1075 words)

	Pragmatism Archive
		Pragmatism is a major intellectual movement which started in America in the 1870s with the Metaphysical Club.
		Today, pragmatism is one of the most active fields of American Philosophy.
		Jerry Fodor calls pragmatism "the defining catastrophe of analytic philosophy of language and philosophy of mind in the last half of the twentieth century." Hume Variations (Oxford, 2004), p.
	www.pragmatism.org (363 words)

	Episode 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This program introduces the traditional philosophical theories of truth: Correspondence, Coherence and Pragmatism; then, discusses those theories in terms of their related positions taken in philosophy of science which are, respectively: Scientific Realism, Conceptual Relativism and Instrumentalism.
		This episode concludes with Toulmin and Putnam suggesting that some all inclusive Theory of Truth may not be possible and perhaps, as Rorty has claimed, the philosophical pursuit of truth, with a capital T, or reality, with a capital R, may be misdirected.
		If this theory of truth is true, does the theory correspond to reality in the same manner as beliefs or statements about Santa Claus and who the President of the United States is supposedly correspond to reality?
	www.cpesbcc.net /ExaminedLife/Episode16.htm (573 words)

	Study Questions for First Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Compare and contrast the epistemological theories of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
		In what respects is the pragmatic theory of truth a relativist theory?
		Explain the difference between act utilitarian ethical theories and rule utilitarian ethical theories.
	www.hu.mtu.edu /~tlockha/h2700sqfe.s05.html (841 words)

	Study Questions for Second HU2700 In-class Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		State the ethical theory that is based on prima facie duties.
		State the ethical theory that is based on moral rights.
		What are the similarities between this theory (based on moral rights) and the ethical theory based on prima facie moral duties?
	www.hu.mtu.edu /~tlockha/h2700sq3.htm (436 words)

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